Political Quotes

“Mr. President, later today, we expect the Democrat leader to force a vote on undermining the filibuster in hopes of forcing through a Federal election takeover to give his party an advantage in future elections. Make no mistake about it, that is what we are talking about--federalizing elections in this country; usurping, preempting States, where elections have been administered and regulated since the inception of this country. The method--the method--that you are talking about using to do it will literally undermine and blow up everything the Senate was supposed to be. Now, you can say that the filibuster is used to prevent or block things from happening, and that may be true. You have done it. We have done it. Used a 60-vote threshold last week to stop a bipartisan Russia sanctions bill from passing in the U.S. Senate. Both sides have done it. But the filibuster is representative and symbolic of something much larger, and that is, the very essence of what the Senate is about. I want to read for you from the Federalist Papers because there has been a lot of quoting of the Founding Fathers over here today. This is what the author of Federalist 62 notes: [A] senate, as a second branch of the legislative assembly, distinct from, and dividing power with, a first, must be in all cases a salutary check on the government. It doubles the security to the people, by requiring the concurrence of two distinct bodies in schemes of usurpation or perfidy. . . . Secondly.…”